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• Freediving is about silence...the silence that comes from within.

  Jacques Mayol

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• Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

  Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Cutting, Perfect, Quality

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• Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

  Anne Frank

  Dark, Wings, House

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.86, Bantam

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• To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Way, Becoming, Easy

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.103, New World Library

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• Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.

  Gordon Cooper

  Intelligent, Order, Our World

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• Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Order, Space, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.6, New World Library

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• The landscapist lives in silence.

  Henri Rousseau

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• Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

  Mike Dirnt

  Thinking, Next Week, Months

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• ...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Men, Oil

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• Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

  Heinrich Heine

  Inspiration, Conversation, Englishmen

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• It's never really quiet in the Wu-Tang tour bus unless it's a certain time of day. Sometimes it's quiet, but you're not going to have eight, nine members on a bus in total silence and everyone is up, unless there are some issues going on, unless there's a death or something really serious that just has us all thinking. Other than that, we're gonna be kicking it.

  GZA

  Thinking, Serious, Quiet

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• I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

  Ezra Pound

  Captured

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• Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover emptiness and boredom. There was only one way I could avoid a state of despair and a breakdown. To be silent. And to reach behind the silence for clarity or at least try to collect the resources that might still be available to me.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Lying, Play, Voice

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• Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The world is awash with (mostly) recorded sounds. We used to have to pay for music or make it ourselves; playing, hearing and experiencing it was exceptional, a rare and special experience. Now hearing it is ubiquitous, and silence is the rarity that we pay for and savor.

  David Byrne

  Technology, Special, Sound

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• Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed and the earth tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for the moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest.

  Arthur Balfour

  Men, Race, Space

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• The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Inspirational, Men, Praise

  Charlotte Lennox (2006). “The Female Quixote: Easyread Edition”, p.330, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Body, Hearing, Faces

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• Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.

  Dorothy Day

  Hands, Expectations, Bird

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• I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past.
  In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

  August Strindberg

  Past

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.286, Univ of California Press

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• Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

  Robin Hobb

  Tongue, Asks

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.35, Spectra

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• Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It's like the climax of a good story. The silence is there because it exists in the music. It just needs to be exposed and acknowledged.

  Deva Premal

  Needs, Stories, Half

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• Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Absence, Holy, Reminders

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2015

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• The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

  Arnold Jacobs

  Sound, Firsts, Should

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• Right now, I would like complete silence when I'm talking.

  CM Punk

  Talking, Wwe, Right Now

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• Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Mistake, Ignorance

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